Victoria flexes her acting chops

Not that Victoria Beckham actually has 'chops', per se. We would not want to Mrs Beckham to think we thought she has chops. Mrs Beckham is, reportedly, very upset at the idea that, for the upcoming Spice Girls tour, she's going to have to eat enough carbohydrates to give her body enough energy to do anything more complex than stand still and pout, and we don't want to make that worse. Although why she'd have to do anything beyond standing in heels and pouting is beyond comprehension, as that's mainly what she ever did, wasn't it?

Is she any good? Well, she's always been a fine comic actress, from that mid-Nineties feature film where she played an emaciated clothes-horse (what was that called? Spice World?) to the recent television comedy-drama, 'Victoria Beckham Coming to America' in which she played an emaciated clotheshorse with a pointy face.

Actually, to be fair, she was very funny in both of those. She has a sense of humour that is evident in her timing, and a sense of her own self-image, combined with the ability and willingness to parody that. Occasionally. And very mildly.

And that willingness and spirit of joininingness should be something we support and encourage. Now if she can only apply it to eating just a little tiny bit of pasta every day, safe in the knowledge that it won't lead to Geri 'beating' her in the race to who can be the thinnest Spice, it'll just mean that the dance routines for the upcoming live show can be a bit more complex than 'Right two three, Faint. Left two three and, oh, Faint. Sashay, sashay, shimmy, Faint. Arms in the air, head to the, no, it's no good, she's gone again.'

Anyway. Ugly Betty. Victoria appears. Plays an emaciated clothes horse. And has four lines. Oh, no, hang on, they're limbs. She also has some dialogue. Verdict 8/10! Boy, that woman can wear a dress convincingly!